Chelsea Clinton responds to Trump's threat to bring up her father's mistress: 'It's a distraction from his inability to talk about what's actually at stake'

Husband and former US
President Bill Clinton and his daughter, Chelsea Clinton, watch
the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26,
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Chelsea Clinton
responded on Tuesday to Donald Trump's claim that he
refrained from bringing up her father's alleged extramarital
affairs for her benefit at the presidential debate Monday night.

Trump had threatened last weekend to bring Gennifer Flowers, a
former model Bill Clinton said he had an extramarital affair with
decades ago, as a guest to the debate against Democratic
opponent Hillary Clinton.

"If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in
the front row," Trump tweeted on Saturday, "perhaps I will put
Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!"

If dopey Mark Cuban of failed Benefactor fame wants to sit in the front row, perhaps I will put Gennifer Flowers right alongside of him!

"I was going to say something extremely rough to Hillary and her
family, and I said to myself, I couldn't do it. It's
inappropriate. It's not nice," Trump said. "I was, but I decided
not to do it out of respect for Chelsea."

"My reaction to that is just what my reaction has been kind of
every time Trump has gone after my mom or my family," Clinton
said, "which is that it's a distraction from his inability to
talk about what's actually at stake in this election and to offer
concrete, comprehensive proposals about the economy, or our
public school system, or debt-free college, or keeping our
country safe and Americans safe here at home and around the
world."

She continued:

"Candidly, I don't remember a time in my life when my parents and
my family weren't being attacked, and so it just sort of seems to
be in that tradition, unfortunately. And what I find most
troubling by far are ... Trump's continued, relentless attacks on
whole swaths of our country and even our global community: women,
Muslims, Americans with disabilities, a Gold Star family. I mean,
that, to me, is far more troubling than whatever his most recent
screed against my mom or my family [is]."